Engaging reading activities for kindergarten and first grade! See how we improve reading comprehension through various reading comprehension strategies. FREE sample file too! This is a guest post from Deedee Wills. We are so excited about our Engaging Readers units... you can tell because I. Can't. Stop. Talking. About. It. Engaging Reading Activities: How did it start? Around last November I had a conversation with Deanna Jump about wanting to do more responding to literature with ... continue reading...
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Book Talk Tuesday: Nonfiction books and Jack Hartmann!!!
Before we get to Book Talk Tuesday I have some EXCITING news. Jack Hartmann has been working with me to create songs and videos for some of my units. How cool is that? We just added his new Frog Life Cycle video to my Frog unit. So if you are one of the sweet people who have already purchased the unit head on over and download the video that goes with it. It shows actual real life footage of a frog's life cycle. You can click on the cover below to check it out. He is ... continue reading...
All About Fonts: A Beginner’s Tutorial to Font Usage with Kimberly Geswein
Hey, y'all! I'm Kimberly from Kimberly Geswein Fonts. I've been making fonts since 2006 and have dabbled in various worlds of graphic design since my college days (that's a long time ago!) My husband teaches 5th grade in Orlando, Florida and I previously taught high school. I was having lunch with Deanna (yes, total name dropping, but I am real life friends with the Queen of TpT) and we were chatting about font usage and I forced her to let me take over here at Mrs. Jump's Class and ... continue reading...
Let’s Talk about Books: Give Up, Gecko! Linky
Hey y'all! I love books! I hope you'll join me every Tuesday as I share a new book with you. Hopefully I will pick some that you've never heard of before. :) I recently purchased this book and read it to my grandbabies who are 5 and 7 and they both LOVED it. You know a book is a hit when they ask you to read it again and again! Give Up, Gecko! is a Folktale from Uganda that is retold by Margaret Read MacDonald Y'all this is the PERFECT book to add to your back to school collection ... continue reading...
Cutest Valentine Book EVER!
Oh, my word! I love books. Better than shoes, better than candy, better than... well you get the idea! I have tons and tons of books but I still buy more. All. the. time. The UPS guy and my hubby are on a first name basis. :) In fact, if I stop ordering books from Amazon our local UPS will probably have to lay off half of their workers. Seriously! Anywhoo.... I just had to share this adorable Valentine book that my daughter found. I read it to my littles today and they LOVED it. ... continue reading...
Common Core Standards Organization and Wishy Washy!
I've had a lot of questions about how I organize my Common Core Standards and Essential Questions. I display them on posters which are hot glued to ribbon. The standards are attached with velcro so that they are easy to change in and out. (Please excuse the bad picture above. The standards shown are from the 1st grade set. Notice that the clipart images match the standard and that the essential question clipart also matches. This helps the little ones who can't read understand the ... continue reading...
Arctic Animals: Polar Bears and Walruses
Arctic Animals Polar Bears and Walruses Lesson Plan Ideas for Kindergarten and First Grade! We have always loved learning about polar bears and animals that live in the Arctic. This graphic organizer is an oldie but a goodie! And their learning transfers into their informational writing beautifully! Here are a few throwback pics Comparing and Contrasting Polar Bears & Walruses using a venn diagram. EXCUSE the ... continue reading...
Ocean Unit of Fun!
We have been learning a lot about ocean animals. We learned all about different types of sharks and we decided that we thought the Great white Shark was the most interesting. We labeled the parts of a shark. This is our schema chart based on an idea from Debbie Miller. We made sharks and orca whales and then sorted the information we learned by using a venn diagram. A close up of some of our shark and whale ... continue reading...
Fun on the Farm!
We had so much fun learning about farm animals. We made a chart to compare and contrast sheep and pigs. We learned a lot about cows. As a culmination to our farm animal unit we made our own ice cream in a bag! The kids were able to see firsthand how matter can change from a liquid to a solid. MOOOO-velous! We read some of our favorite stories, Mrs. Wishy Washy by Joy Cowley, and Who's in the Shed? by Brenda Parkes are great stories for Shared Reading. Who's in ... continue reading...
More zoo unit pictures
Here you'll find more zoo unit pictures. We made alligator pie and then used Interactive writing to create our How To chart. Our fun poem. This was written by a Canadian poet by the name of Dennis Lee. I'm told there are a few more verses to the poem...but this was just enough for us.. we love it! YUMMY! Alligator pie The kids wrote their own How To during Writer's Workshop Our alligators and nonfiction alligator writing. A close up of ... continue reading...
Teaching with Versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story
23 Versions of Goldilocks and the three bears stories. Read various versions of this classic story. Have fun comparing these fractured fairy tales. 23 Versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story We all know and love this classic story. It is so fun to read different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Whether you're comparing and contrasting or just reading them for fun, students are sure to enjoy these fractured fairy tales. #1 Goldie and the Three Hares by ... continue reading...
How to Start Teaching Writer’s Workshop in Kindergarten & First Grade
Do you struggle with how to get started? Writer's Workshop in kindergarten and first grade classrooms is one of the most powerful components. In Writing Workshop in kindergarten and first grade, students are encoding words that come from their thoughts and feelings, which is a much easier skill than decoding. Successful writers become successful readers! So, how do you get started? The answer is simple. Just jump right in!! I usually start at the beginning of the ... continue reading...
Close Reading Passages for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd Grade
Fall themed close reading passages to teach your primary students how to annotate a text. Your students will love this color-coded method using DOTS! Close Reading Passages Close reading is all about reading to uncover the text to deepen comprehension. Students engage with the text and focus on the information the text provides. With these close reading passages, students will dive into the text and learn about some fun Fall topics. Read about how you can use this resource in your ... continue reading...
Monster Fun
Today we had fun with monsters. We read lots of monster stories and poems. Leonardo the Terrible Monster was our favorite so we read it twice! This is one of the poems we read. This poem is so much fun because it is easy to act out. We acted scared for the first two lines and then we pretended to "sneak" around the room and yelled, "Boo!" We brainstormed a list of verbs and adjectives for monsters and then we made our own monsters and wrote list poems. I did a directed drawing ... continue reading...
Spiders!
We have been learning about spiders this week. I love this unit! I think spiders are so interesting and the kids love learning about them. I start my unit by finding out what the kids already know about spiders. The idea for this chart came from the book, Teaching with Intention by Debbie Miller. I asked the kids what schema they have for spiders and I wrote it on a pink post it note and attached it to our chart under Our Schema (what we think we know). As we learned about spiders ... continue reading...
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